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Long Working Days Can Cause Heart Problems, Study Says (theguardian.com)
According to a major new study, long days at the office can be bad for your heart. While the risk of stroke is increased from working too many hours in the office, it seems that working more than 55 hours a week means a 40% higher chance of developing an irregular heartbeat (atrial fibrillation), when compared to those with a better work-life balance. The Guardian reports: The research team, led by Professor Mika Kivimaki from the department of epidemiology at University College, London, analysed data on the working patterns of 85,494 mainly middle-aged men and women drawn from the UK, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Participants were put into groups according to their work pattern, with 35-40 hours a week regarded as the control group. No one had AF at the start of the study, published in the European Heart Journal. After 10 years of follow-up, an average of 12.4 per 1,000 people had developed AF, but among those working 55 hours or more, this figure was higher at 17.6 per 1,000 people. Those working the longest hours were more overweight, had higher blood pressure, smoked more and and consumed more alcohol. But the team's conclusions about longer working hours and AF still remained after taking these factors into account.
I am 61 and I just did a no sleep 24+ crashed at 6pm the next day and woke at 2300 hrs (so 5 hours of sleep) guess i should worry ;) But then again i drink a pot of coffee a day ;) lol
Termination of income can cause starvation and death.
Enjoy being well-rested while you die.
who would have thunk that?
This is a known fact, has been known, has been studied, and is not only common knowledge but also common sense. Another waste of time and money from the No Shit Sherlock Institute of Bloody Obvious Conclusions.
Then why do blacks have higher rates of cardio issues than whites?
So take it easy when you ponder your answer to this.
What did Billie Joe and his girlfriend throw off the Tallahatchie Bridge, and why did Billie Joe commit suicide?
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The current theory is one of these.
And it wasn't suicide. It was infection from it snapping in half for being cheap Chinese trash while it was being used. In those days, it would have been REAL embarrassing to go to the hospital for that!
Is it because of
A) the long hours spend there (presumably on your chair), or
B) your boss shouting at you to get this done by Date X or being fired, or maybe
C) not getting enough sleep to normalize your cortisol levels, or
D) not having time to go workout, or perhaps
E) some of all of the above?
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They could have asked Japan (or Korea, or China) to learn about documented death by overwork:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This is exactly why Trump won.
They assign young engineers to assist our team to do translation etc, and these guys show up 7:30 in the morning at the hotel room, stay with them till 10:30PM, and then show up fresh as a daisy next day morning 7:30. They seem to spend 12 hours a day at work.
Panasonic actually implemented a policy limiting its workers to 80 hours a week.
One possible conclusion could be Europeans are lazy and they get apoplectic shock if they are asked to work for more than 35 hours a week.
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Is that a long working day or a long day browsing SlashDot with some work in between?
It's not a shock, but at the same time it's a little too easy to translate that to "stop working long hours or you'll die younger." The question is what would you be doing in those extra hours if you had it? Lie around the pool? Watch TV? Train for a marathon?
I think most of this is driven by how you manage stress and genetics. No question if you feel constantly under (bad) stress at work, the longer you spend there the worse for you. When I went from taking a couple of years off to working a solid 44 hour week that is classic high stress, my blood pressure went *down*. My doctor told me that despite the fact that my job is high pressure (VFX supervision, managing many tasks at once plus also producing shots myself), it's pretty obvious I actually enjoy it and I don't let the stress become "bad" stress. It's not some Tony Robbins bullshit life path thing, I'm just lucky that I'm wired that way.
I think fundamentals like this get ignored when you do these 8-out-of-10-cats sort of data captures. Focus more on how you deal with stress rather than counting hours.
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Long work days?? Does time have that much to do with it. Or does the stress of being over worked causing the need for more hours contribute to more stress. My observation is that many companies place a extreme emphasis on constantly expanding, growing, making more profit. At some point you reach critical point at which it get's harder to expand. I was in transportation and the stress their has not been time per say but rather the move to better manage time to a mico managed level that it stresses out people who like office workers then have unreasonable deadlines to meet. More hours doesn't fix what is happening to workers. Its workers being ask to do more then they should because companies don't hire enough people.
If you're going to discuss long working hours and heart problems, surely should the amount of exercise not also be considered? This is a big misleading. But I always appreciate the articles being shared on slashdot regardless :-)
... African American people have higher rates of heart disease <its-a-joke>
But seriously since the study was European you would imagine heart disease would've taken a dip since lower hour work weeks are not just the norm but government enforced. Yet other studies show heart disease rising in European countries.
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[A] sedentary culture and studies show all that sitting is taking a major toll on employee health.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
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It's the ( lack of ) mileage.
I would bet that for most people it's the sitting around literally all day without moving.
This doesn't seem to be about long working days at all. It's about working too many hours in a week. Yes, you need long days to do that, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's the long working days that's the cause. If I work three long days instead of five average ones, that's still under the 55 hours a week they talk about.
No shit Sherlock.
In other news water is wet and /. is infested with assholes.
And your 'studies'. Duh. We have been aware of this fact for many decades. Execessive stress on the body combined with an unhealthy lifestyle are the recipe for health problems. Here's the thing though: a *healthy* lifestyle (healthy food, a real exercise plan, not 'counting steps', and consciously opening and evolving the mind) makes the body very resilient. Then again, that is more work (waiting for the millennial study that claims physical activity is anathema to health, just to get out of 'gym class'). Should you work 60 hour weeks? No. Can you handle 40? Yes, easily, and without telecommuting, even.
It amazes me how all of your 'studies' are designed to get you out of doing things. That is weak, jr. high level sauce, real life doesn't come with doctor's notes. To anyone over 40 (you know - the ones paying your bills, getting you that starter home, a car, and all those tacky tattoos?) it's a joke. Get to work, whippersnappers!
You are not required to love your job. You are required to contribute something to the world that matters to *other* people, not just you, and pay for your own tasteless body mods and fruit- flavored alcohol.
the vast majority of human beings work hard for nothing. That's not me grousing, it's just cold hard fact. If you're a factory worker in Indonesia you can work as hard as you want. It won't matter. Heck, there's people in India getting kidney failure because they won't take breaks while working the fields.
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Did they only study AF or AF and 19 other health conditions?
Work for other reasons than get rich FOR YOURSELF.
For instance, this "couch potato" article from 2008: https://www.newscientist.com/a... (may be paywalled).
Some ideas what to do about it: https://www.newscientist.com/a... (may be paywalled).
and this: https://www.newscientist.com/a... (OK - I keep giving NS articles because I subscribe and there's no paywall for me.)
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